> And just the other day we had a link here where a retired physicist was saying fusion is not likely to work, and if it does it will produce radioactive waste much like fission.

He didn't really say it won't work, he mostly just said it wouldn't be as clean as people think it will be. But you are right, it does put news like this one into perspective.

Link to the HN discussion from two days ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14202488